2015-03-20 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawai'i Police Commission Regular Session Minutes March 20, 2015 Page 3 • Traffic report. Assistant Chief Kealoha reported that for the month of February, 4,172 citations were issued: 2,878 moving/regulatory, 261 seatbelt, 23 child restraints, and 1,010 speeding. They had three traffic fatalities in one accident involving students and a recently graduated male. They are working with the schools to get their message across about safety and driving. There were no identified traffic trends. • Personnel report: Assistant Chief Kanehailua reported having 33 sworn vacancies. The vacancy will be down to 21 when the 12 recruits go on the road on June 1. Recruitment continues, and they are looking to hire 20 people. They are in the sergeant promotions process. They now have 11 dispatch vacancies. Dispatch training takes about 3 months, and multi -tasking is an important trait for a dispatcher. They reached out to the County's HR to make dispatch recruitment continuous. The lieutenant in records will be going to the FBI Academy. They had mock CALEA exercises in preparation for the June assessment. • Finance report (including FY 2015-16 Budget): Assistant Chief Kanehailua reported that they are tracking at 68%, just below the target of 70%. The slow down of the lava flow has helped with the overtime issues. Vacancies also help, but it increases overtime. Overtime in dispatch is about 300 hours. The 2015-16 budget is $62,052,000, which is slightly less than last year. They were told to prepare a status quo budget. • Commendations of sworn and civilian employees: Deputy Chief Ferreira reported receiving 7 commendations since the last meeting. • Other departmental activities: Deputy Chief Ferreira reported that Chief Kubojiri is attending the FBI Academy refresher course. Their budget hearing with the County Council is scheduled for April 23 at 1:30 p.m. Comments can be made at that time. Vice Chair Bertsch stated that one of the duties of the commission is to review and make recommendations on the police department's budget, and they have to look at it. Deputy Chief Ferreira reported that April 13-17 is National Telecommunications Week. They will have a dispatch recognition luncheon on April 16 at the Hilo station. Recess was called at 10:04 a.m. The meeting reconvened at 10:20 a.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION Commissioner Morioka motioned to meet in executive session to consult with Corporation Counsel on questions and issues pertaining to the commission's powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and liabilities; to consider discipline and charges against officers or employees of the Hawai'i Police Department, to consider sensitive matters relating to public safety; and to conduct an annual evaluation of the police chief pursuant to HRS 92-5 (a) (2) (4) (6) and the Hawai'i County Charter Section 13-20 (b). Commissioner Ono seconded, and the motion carried unanimously.